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International Relations Department

Objectives

The International Relations Department’s primary objective is to animate, develop and manage exchanges with foreign universities. It focuses particularly on organising and making the French students’ year abroad (in their 3rd year) as straightforward and enriching as possible. The department also welcomes the international students and helps them adapt to French life on linguistic, academic and social levels.

The IEP and its network

Over the past decade, Sciences Po Aix has progressively built a network with foreign universities. Today, 83 partnerships in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia form this international network that offers the IEP students the opportunity to spend a year abroad on every continent on an academic programme in a partner university.
The opportunity for students to discover a new country and its culture is rendered possible by the standardization of education on a European model.

Exchanges

Today, the Institute’s biggest challenge is that of the internal and external internationalisation of its studies. Internally, students must excel in foreign languages and in their knowledge of foreign systems (classes taught in different languages, study period abroad). Externally, the involvement of foreign students is reinforced beyond the standard exchange programs (Erasmus, Socrates, Tempus).

Partnerships

Since 2006, the IEP and Freiburg University have set up a five year French-German joint course. Other agreements with Anglo-saxone Universities, particularly at a Master level, are currently considered and French –English courses were set up in 2008. A particular emphasis is laid on tomorrow’s superpowers: Brazil, Mexico, China and India. Emphasis is also laid on the development of the Mediterranean area, in line with Aix’s natural vocation. It is also important to underline the role of the International Relations Department in the development of further partnerships with foreign universities in order to widen the opportunities of exchange programs. Finally, the school’s desire to strive towards internationalisation is visible through the Institute’s development of its research department which is forming new partnerships with outside research teams.

Foreign students arriving at the IEP have the choice between the Political Studies Certificate (CEP), the Political Studies Program (1 year, PEPA), the Political Studies Program (1semester, PEPS), and the free choice PEPS (only possible after agreement between the IEP and the Aix-Marseille University).
The International Relations Department has set up a device in order to help foreign students throughout their studies in Aix.
The goal is to help the integration of international students on linguistic, academic and social levels:
• Linguistic integration: a French module (“French as a foreign language” seminar) is available to students throughout the year
• Academic integration: an IEP teacher and an international relations monitor are available to students for advice and to follow them through their studies. The international relations monitor is available, several hours a week, to meet students who need specifically academic help or advice.
• Social integration: the International Association (internationalstudents13@gmail.com) run by IEP students is available to help international students get settled in to their new life in Aix.